Dear all, I released new versions of some of my packages. Here are the changelogs: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regions-0.9 http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regions-mtl-0.3.1.5 http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regions-monadstf-0.3.1.5 * Switch from monad-peel to monad-control. * Removed Control.Monad.Trans.Region.Concurrent. The fork functions contained bugs which could not be fixed. I'm working on a way to copy handles from one thread to another but the design has not settled yet. * Removed Data.RegionRef. I always considered this module a bit of a wart. * Added support for local regions. Primarily needed for the alloca functions from the regional-pointers package. More on that below. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regional-pointers-0.6 * Switch from monad-peel to monad-control. * Major API change: Use the new local regions. This means that instead of: alloca ∷ (Storable α, MonadPeelIO pr) ⇒ (∀ s. RegionalPtr α (RegionT s pr) → RegionT s pr β) → pr β I now have: alloca ∷ (Storable α, MonadControlIO pr) ⇒ (∀ sl. LocalPtr α (LocalRegion sl s) → RegionT (Local s) pr β) → RegionT s pr β This allows my alloca to use the native alloca which is more efficient than doing a manual malloc and free as I did before. The type also allows to open resources in the continuation and use them outside the continuation and visa versa. * Have separate types for the three different pointers: - RegionalPtr: for pointers created using malloc. - LocalPtr: for pointers created using alloca. - NullPtr: for the nullPtr. * Add the type classes Pointer and AllocatedPointer to classify them. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/safer-file-handles-0.10 http://hackage.haskell.org/package/safer-file-handles-bytestring-0.2 http://hackage.haskell.org/package/safer-file-handles-text-0.2 * Switch from monad-peel to monad-control. * Support regional-pointers-0.6 and use its overloaded pointers. * Add separate types for standard handles: StdFileHandle and normal handles: RegionalFileHandle. * Add the type class FileHandle to group them. * Overload the filehandle in operations. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/usb-0.8 * getStrDesc and getStrDescFirstLang now return a Text instead of a String. This is a more efficient and cleaner interface. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/usb-enumerator-0.3 * Switch from monad-peel to monad-control. * Support iteratee-0.8.*. * Support usb-0.9. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/usb-safe-0.12 * Switched from monad-peel to monad-control. * Exported the ReadEndpoint, WriteEndpoint and EnumReadEndpoint type classes so you can refer to them in type signatures. * Support usb-0.8: getStrDesc and getStrDescFirstLang now return a Text instead of a String. * Support regions-0.9. * Support usb-enumerator-0.3. * Support iteratee-0.8.*. Regards, Bas